n e w s

I'll be FINALLY answering all of the questions in my "iMovie inbox" shortly as well, sending the answers to the yahoo group.

All of the source to my plugins (Code Warrior 8/plugin SDK 1.0) is now
availble in the download section of this web
page.

--==[ 2003 June 25 ]==--

As of June 25, 2003, Apple has released a new version (2.0) of their
iMovie Plugin SDK!

The good news:

It no longer requires the first version of Code Warrior 8 to build. (the later releases of CW 8 don't build Carbon binaries anymore, so you can't build iMovie plugins with it. How's that for confusing?)

It comes with the same great example plugins as 1.0.

It's free. (duh.)

The bad news:

It builds Cocoa plugins, so they won't work on iMovie 2, or under OS 9
anymore. I'm fine with losing OS 9, but iMovie 3 is... sub-par for Apple...

Plugins won't work in iMovie 2.

The plugins you make with it won't work in iMovie 2.

(yes, I know that's three bullet items for the same information.)

d o w n l o a d

Note: These plugins require iMovie 2.1.2 or newer for OS X.
They should work under 2.1, but many people have had problems with 2.1.
Yes. They are free! Feel free to buy me something from my
Amazon wish list if you want to, but don't feel
bad if you don't. :)

This archive requires Code Warrior 8(Carbon) as well as the Apple
iMovie SDK version 1.x (not the new 2.x!) to build these.

YES, these are FREE! Enjoy!

What? Are these really free?

Yes. I personally believe that there is not enough Mac software out
there that is free. Sure, there's a lot of stuff that costs $30-$3000,
but free? Nah! On top of that, these were developed with an
educational version of CodeWarrior8, which prohibits me from selling
these anyway... not that I would.

But, here's the drawback; You have to deal with stupid names like
"Monkey Brewster", and the possibilty that my plugins might be a little
slower or perhaps not look as nice as some costly plugins. I think
they look fine, and generally, I've tried to do as many speedup
modifications as possible to make them as speedy as possible.

If you have any problems with them, suggestions for new ones, or just
want to say thanks, feel free to send me mail and tell me so.
:)